1/ To explore or to exploit? I’m excited to share my new preprint with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social and @micahgallen.com, correlating variations in cortical microstructures with individual differences in exploration-exploitation behaviours, using a gamified task! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Check out our latest paper, a collaboration with @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social using gamified computational psychiatry measures to explore brain-behavioral correlates of decision making!

check our our latest update - a whole toolbox of stuff for interoceptive psychophysics!

New preprint! We are pleased to share our Hierarchical Bayesian framework for Interoceptive Psychophysics! Implemented in rstan, we provide a complete suite of tools spanning model comparison, parameter recovery, multifactor designs, power analysis, and more! 🎯 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m elated to share our latest publication - out now in @natmentalhealth.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s44... - tour de force by @leahbanellis.bsky.social @brainandstomach.bsky.social and the rest of the VMP team!

Absolutely loved discussing our recent @natmentalhealth.nature.com paper on IhmCurious YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDTv...), thank you for having me! & to @micahgallen.com @brainandstomach.bsky.social & the @the-ecg.bsky.social team for all their hard work 🧠

I have a gut feeling you will enjoy @the-ecg.bsky.social postdoc @leahbanellis.bsky.social discussing our recent publication on the stomach brain connection, out now in Nature Mental Health!

Excited to chair @micahgallen.com 's fantastic seminar this Wednesday, June 25th at DPG! 🧠🫀 Join us in 📍 Room 2C, PSICO2 building. Don’t miss it! 🚀 #UniversityOfPadova #DepartmentOfGeneralPsychology

I'm so grateful to write my first magazine article with Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... It features our preprint on 🫁 'Body-Wandering' 🫀 with invaluable guidance from @micahgallen.com and @themindwanders.bsky.social : biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ever get distracted by your own body? We call this "body-wandering." 🧠🫀 Our latest study uncovers its neural fingerprint and the link to ADHD & depression symptoms. Awesome write-up by our own @leahbanellis.bsky.social, in Psyche Magazine! psyche.co/ideas/how-mu... #neuroscience #research #ADHD

Up next is the amazing @ashleytyrer.bsky.social presenting her recent preprint on beta blockade of cardiac and respiratory interoception.!

Thrilled to host a set of @the-ecg.bsky.social flash talks with our visiting colleague @beckety.bsky.social - organized by the excellent @ashleytyrer.bsky.social - first up is @acourtin.bsky.social talking about computational fMRI and pain learning!

Do you have #ADHD or #autism? We're running a short, anonymous survey on interoception. It takes just 15–20 minutes, and your input would mean a lot. 👉 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Busy day - check out our latest preprint, exploring domain specificity in cardiac and respiratory interoception!

Is interoceptive sensing unified across internal organs? 🫀🫁 Our high-powered psychophysical study (N=241) suggests not. Bayesian evidence indicates interoceptive processes are largely modality-specific—challenging the idea of a unitary interoceptive sense. 🔗 Read here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Excited to share our latest publication, out now in @ScienceAdvances: “Thermosensory predictive coding underpins an illusion of pain.” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/.... Read the full thread for details!

Our close collaborator @francescafardo.bsky.social recently went on the Science Podcast to discuss our new publication on thermosensory predictive coding and illusory pain! Starting at 26:44 www.science.org/content/podc...

Very cool study!

Extremely cool study for a “body-first” target approach to interoception and metacognition! 🫀🫁🧠💊 Looking forward to hearing more about it tomorrow during the Special Talk session at the #MindBrainBody Symposium #MBBS25

11/ I am exceedingly grateful for all the help and supervision from @micahgallen.com, without whom this project would not have been possible! Also for the support of our lab @the-ecg.bsky.social, @lundbeckfonden.bsky.social, @erc.europa.eu and CFIN @au.dk 🙏

Can we enhance interoception by controlling the heart? Thrilled to share our new study, led by @ashleytyrer.bsky.social , where we use computational modeling to show that blockading peripheral noradrenaline uniquely alters awareness of heart rate & breathing! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

1/ We can measure interoception in many aspects, but can we actually manipulate it? I’m excited to share our new study, which shows that blockade of peripheral beta-adrenergic pathways improves cardiac and respiratory interoception in unique ways! 🧵 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Don't miss our latest study - a massive endeavour including MEG scans, pharmacological manipulation, and modelling of interoceptive psychophysics in a 50 N within subject design!

Just the Facts: How Dialogues with AI Reduce Conspiracy Beliefs: http://osf.io/h7n8u_v1/

I am hiring: PhD students, postdocs, admin personnel. Email me if you know somebody that may be interested in joining us in Cologne! 👇👇 Please RT for reach! 🙏🙏

🚨Job alert!🚨 Are you curious about curiosity, and looking for a post-doc position? Then please consider applying: www.ru.nl/en/working-a... Feel free to e-mail/DM me if you have questions. Thanks very much for sharing/re-posting!

The motivational drives of sickness: Acute changes in self-rated motivation during experimental endotoxemia using the the Motivation Scale of Sickness (MOSSick): http://osf.io/64qye_v1/

🧠🍽️ Satiety neurons that make you crave sugar? 🍬 New research shows that POMC neurons, typically linked to appetite suppression, release opioids in the thalamus, flipping the switch to increase sugar intake. #neuroskyence 🧪 #appetite

Read the short and sweet version of our new paper about predicting from brain dynamics, featured in elife digests magazine: elifesciences.org/digests/9512... #neuroskyence The intuition is that our approach uses a useful projection - like shining a light on an object and looking at its shadow

Serial dependence of confidence judgments reveals metacognitive adaptation: http://osf.io/f35br_v1/

Paper🚨 "Objects, Faces, and Spaces: Organizational Principles of Visual Object Perception as Evidenced by Individual Differences in Behavior" by @heidasigurdar.bsky.social & @ingamariao.bsky.social JEP:G editor's choice ->free to read psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... #visionscience #psychscisky 🧵1/13

1/3 Tutorial on exploring ecological momentary assessment data is online at AMPPS, with: - Accessible ways to visualize data for better understanding - Models to get some first insights - Further reading boxes for more advanced topics - Reproducible pipeline you can run over your own data

I’m thrilled to officially announce that starting March 2027, I’ll be a tenured full professor at the @aarhusuni.bsky.social Institute of Clinical Medicine!

Impressive work from our colleagues in the BPP lab!

Out now in the Journal of Pain! In this impressive work, @francescafardo.bsky.social and colleagues developed a 2-dimensional psychophysical approach to model the thermal grill illusion of pain. www.jpain.org/article/S152... #neuroskyence #psychscisky

By popular demand, I have begun making a cognitive neuroscience starter pack. If you scan brains, you can be on it! go.bsky.app/2n84SRM

Don’t miss the latest from our lab - a stunning exploration of the neural, affective, and physiological dimensions of interoceptive “body-wandering”.

What happens when our stream of consciousness turns inward, towards the body? Our new fMRI study of 536 individuals finds that 'body-wandering' is associated with distinct patterns of brain connectivity, physiology, affect, and mental health: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

@the-ecg.bsky.social postdoc @ashleytyrer.bsky.social at the NAD Denmark Annual Meeting, giving a stunning talk on our work investigating the impact of noradrenaline block on predictive processing. Go Ashley!

Happy to share our latest publication, out now in Cognition, where we find that metacognitive self-beliefs are updated in a suprisingly domain-specific manner. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #psychscisky #neuroskyence

Check out our latest publication on metacognition and self-belief updating!

Got Butterflies in your Stomach? 😵‍💫 I am super excited to share the first major study of my postdoc @the-ecg.bsky.social ! We report a multidimensional mental health signature of stomach-brain coupling in the largest sample to date 🧵👇https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.05.597517v1

New lab logo!

Our group has a new pre-print out! We developed, tested and validated a 2D psychophysical model that can be used to estimate temperatures that induce the thermal grill illusion - an illusory experience of heat/pain from innocuous cold and warm 🔥❄️ #neuro #neuroskyence 🧪🧠

Stunning new preprint from @francescafardo.bsky.social and her lab - they developed & validated a 2D adaptive model to estimate the thermal grill illusion - it reliably finds combinations of non-painful cold & warm stimuli that together elicit heat pain! #neuro #psych www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Looking forward to a visit from @micahgallen.com to Trinity this Thursday for a talk on multidimensional interoception! Travel safe Micah and see you soon ✈️

New preprint! Do men and women differ in their metacognitive abilities? In a new preprint, we detail robust differences in global and local metacognition which span multiple cognitive domains. Read all about our findings in this thread! #psychology #neuroskyence osf.io/preprints/ps...

Gender Differences in Metacognition: Global and Local Contrasts in Bias and Efficiency: http://osf.io/2gwky/

Today we are celebrating a talk by the excellent @olivierdesmedt.bsky.social on measurement and construct validity in #interoception